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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

London results in detail

London Elects has today published the ward-by-ward detail of the Mayoral election results - a must read for electoral train-spotters/borough or constituency campaign strategists:

6 Comments:

Fascinating stuff, though I do wish Hackney didn't have such a high level of postal votes: 28% Lab, 36% Con, 33% Libs. It makes it impossible to see what the exact state of play actually is in each ward.

Scroll to the bottom of each spreadsheet for the key to which candidate is which.

Ben, my best guess based on what I know about the Tory vote in Hackney is that of their 5,000 postal votes about 75-80% will have come from the 4 Stamford Hill wards. That bit of the chassidic community that votes LD in Cazenove ward council elections would probably have voted Tory in this election. There would then be smaller clusters in Hoxton, De Beauvoir and Queensbridge.

The Labour and LD postal votes would have a fairly even spread - I've seen the ward-by-ward breakdown of where there are canvassed Labour supporters with postal votes and there is no real pattern to it -it's about the same number in each ward.

My quick and very superficial analysis reckons that the best ward for Ken in the North-East constituency was Hackney Downs (LBH) and the best ward for both Jennette Arnold and Labour overall was Kings Park (also LBH).

The worst were Chingford Green (Ken and Labour) and Endlebury (Jennette). Both LBWF.

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Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Supporter of Europe, NATO/nuclear deterrence, Israel, electoral reform. Guardian reader. Dad. Oxford resident. Unite union member. Employment history as a Labour Party Organiser, Local Government Political Assistant, Director at a Public Affairs company. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.